i'd say that money shots are about about making it real, about filling her lack in response to the anxiety that this invokes and provokes, about reinscribing where it's *really* at, and about legitimating homoerotic desire for het men (i.e., it's okay to look at, admire, desire another man's cock as long as it's being used to reassert power over a woman/women.)
GN: Yeah, but ya see, you can go with this any way you want. Domination, whatever. But look at it this way. The typical porn jerk doesn't have a lady in his life. He can't come in a woman. And he spends his time watching actors who can't come in a woman either, not because they can't, but because their work contract forbids it. So it's not power over the woman, per se, it's the fact that the humiliation and frustration of the actor coming in empty air is equivalent to the lonely rejection of the fart jacking off and shooting sperm into empty space. There is more pathos than power here.
Note that the genre differs from mainstream sex acts in movies. I'm speaking of the kind where the actor & actress are beneath the sheets and we get an over the shoulder shot of them moaning and groaning. Here, clearly, the coming is going on "inside" (in the fictional sense, since in reality he may be wearing swim trunks). Maybe the thing about porn is...the hard core customers are flakes? That it's *not* a provfound insight into what's going on with most people?
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